A Complete Collection of State Trials and Proceedings for High Treason and Other Crimes and Misdemeanors from the Earliest Period to the Year 1783: With Notes and Other Illustrations. 1650-61T.C. Hansard, 1816 - Law reports, digests, etc |
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... matter premised , the Respondent ( saving as before ) offers for law and reason , that the honourable Court the High ... matter of circumstance , as well as in matter of fact ; which appears to be the Respondent's right by ( Stampf . pl ...
... matter premised , the Respondent ( saving as before ) offers for law and reason , that the honourable Court the High ... matter of circumstance , as well as in matter of fact ; which appears to be the Respondent's right by ( Stampf . pl ...
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... matter of life , or where life may be the concernment . 1. For Reason , you are not constituted a Court of Record , which is absolutely neces sary , having life and forfeiture of lands in your charge . First , For the State , that they ...
... matter of life , or where life may be the concernment . 1. For Reason , you are not constituted a Court of Record , which is absolutely neces sary , having life and forfeiture of lands in your charge . First , For the State , that they ...
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... matter and men ; yet those commissions do not restrain the commissioners to proceed only against those persons , and upon those particular crimes , which the common fame bath rendered hac vice , to be triable ; but run in general terms ...
... matter and men ; yet those commissions do not restrain the commissioners to proceed only against those persons , and upon those particular crimes , which the common fame bath rendered hac vice , to be triable ; but run in general terms ...
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... Matter of Law ariseth in the Indictment , to make a motion , and to move for Counsel , and to shew the illegality of it ; and though I con- fess I am extremely ignorant of the law , yet I understand , that after I have pleaded , I am ...
... Matter of Law ariseth in the Indictment , to make a motion , and to move for Counsel , and to shew the illegality of it ; and though I con- fess I am extremely ignorant of the law , yet I understand , that after I have pleaded , I am ...
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... matter of law , viz . Whether this trial ought not to be by a jury of twelve of the neighbour- hood , or whether in any different way from it ? And I doubt it upon this ground , your lordship having given me this hint ; for I was ...
... matter of law , viz . Whether this trial ought not to be by a jury of twelve of the neighbour- hood , or whether in any different way from it ? And I doubt it upon this ground , your lordship having given me this hint ; for I was ...
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Page 375 - Oh that I knew where I might find him! That I might come even to his seat! I would order my cause before him, And fill my mouth with arguments. I would know the words which he would answer me, And understand what he would say unto me. Will he plead against me with his great power? No, but he would put strength in me.
Page 841 - While I was with them in the world, I kept them in thy name : those that thou gavest me I have kept, and none of them is lost, but the Son of Perdition, that the Scripture might be fulfilled.
Page 19 - No freeman shall be taken, or imprisoned, or be disseised of his freehold, or liberties, or free customs, or be outlawed or exiled, or any otherwise destroyed; nor will we pass upon him, nor condemn him, but by lawful judgment of his peers, or by the law of the land.
Page 787 - He that being often reproved hardeneth his neck, shall suddenly be destroyed, and that without remedy.
Page 507 - ... the persons prosecuting, soliciting, or executing such process, shall be deemed violators of the law of nations, and disturbers of the public repose ; and shall suffer such penalties and corporal punishment as the lord chancellor and the two chief justices, or any two of them, shall think fit.
Page 883 - England,' it is declared and enacted, that no freeman may be taken or imprisoned or be disseised of his freeholds or liberties, or his free customs, or be outlawed or exiled; or in any manner destroyed, but by the lawful judgment of his peers, or by the law of the land...
Page 813 - Westminster to the Old Exchange, London : and there likewise be set on the pillory, with his head in the pillory, for the space of two hours, between the hours of eleven and one, on Saturday next, in each place wearing a paper containing an inscription of his crimes ; and that at the Old Exchange his tongue be bored through with a hot iron and that he be there also stigmatized in the forehead with the letter B...
Page 633 - I said in mine heart, God shall judge the righteous and the wicked: for there is a time there for every purpose and for every work.
Page 715 - BRETHREN, if a man be overtaken in a fault, ye which are spiritual, restore such a one in the spirit of meekness ; considering thyself, lest thou also be tempted.
Page 593 - And they neither found me in the temple disputing with any man, neither raising up the people, neither in the synagogues, nor in the city : 13 Neither can they prove the things whereof they now accuse me.